Tobit 8

¹Yemek yemeyi bitirdiklerinde, Tobias'ı kızın yanına götürdüler.

²Tobias yoldayken Rafael'in sözlerini hatırladı; tütsü küllerini aldı, balığın yüreğini ve karaciğerini üzerine koyup tütsüledi.

³Kötü ruh kokuyu alınca Mısır'ın en yukarı bölgelerine kaçtı ve melek onu orada bağladı.

⁴Her ikisi birlikte içeriye kapatılınca, Tobias yataktan kalktı ve şöyle dedi: "Kalk, kız kardeşim, dua edelim de Rab bize merhamet etsin."

⁵Ve Tobias dua etmeye başladı: "Övgüler olsun sana, ey atalarımızın Tanrısı! Senin kutsal ve yüce adın sonsuz çağlar boyunca övülsün. Gökler ve yarattığın her şey sana övgüler sunsun.

⁶Adem'i sen yarattın ve ona bir destek, bir yardımcı olsun diye karısı Havva'yı verdin; insan soyu onlardan türedi. Sen, 'İnsanın yalnız kalması iyi değildir, ona kendisine benzer bir yardımcı yaratalım' demiştin.

⁷Ve şimdi, ey Rab, ben bu kız kardeşimi fuhuş amacıyla değil, hakikat üzere eş olarak alıyorum. Bana merhamet etmeyi ve onunla birlikte yaşlanmamı buyur."

⁸Kız da onunla birlikte, "Amin" dedi.

⁹Ve o gece ikisi de uykuya daldı.

¹⁰Raguel ise kalkıp gitti ve, "Bu da ölmesin?" diyerek bir mezar kazdı.

¹¹Sonra Raguel kendi evine döndü.

¹²Karısı Edna'ya şöyle dedi: "Hizmetçi kızlardan birini gönder de baksınlar, yaşıyor mu? Eğer yaşamıyorsa, kimse bilmeden onu gömelim."

¹³Hizmetçi kız kapıyı açıp içeri girdi ve ikisini de uyurken buldu.

¹⁴Dışarı çıkıp onlara onun yaşadığını haber verdi.

¹⁵Bunun üzerine Raguel Tanrı'ya övgüler sunarak şöyle dedi: "Övgüler olsun sana, ey Tanrı, her temiz ve kutsal övgüyle! Senin kutsalların ve yarattığın her şey sana övgüler sunsun; tüm meleklerin ve seçilmişlerin sonsuza dek seni övsün.

¹⁶Övgüler olsun sana, çünkü beni sevindirdin; şüphelendiğim şey başıma gelmedi, aksine bize büyük merhametine göre davrandın.

¹⁷Övgüler olsun sana, çünkü anne babalarının tek çocuğu olan bu iki kişiye merhamet ettin. Onlara merhamet eyle, ey Efendimiz; yaşamlarını sağlık, sevinç ve merhamet içinde tamamlamalarını sağla."

¹⁸Sonra Raguel uşaklarına mezarı toprakla doldurmalarını buyurdu.

¹⁹Onlar için on dört gün süren bir düğün şöleni yaptı.

²⁰Düğün günleri tamamlanmadan önce Raguel, Tobias'a ant içerek, on dört günlük düğün şöleni tamamlanıncaya dek hiçbir yere gitmemesini söyledi.

²¹"Ancak ondan sonra varlığımın yarısını alıp esenlikle babanın yanına dönebilirsin; geri kalan yarısı ise ben ve karım öldükten sonra sizin olacak."

¹ΟΤΕ δὲ συνετέλεσαν δειπνοῦντες, εἰσήγαγον Τωβίαν πρὸς αὐτήν.

²ὁ δὲ πορευόμενος ἐμνήσθη τῶν λόγων Ῥαφαὴλ καὶ ἔλαβε τὴν τέφραν τῶν θυμιαμάτων καὶ ἐπέθηκε τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ ἰχθύος καὶ τὸ ἧπαρ καὶ ἐκάπνισεν.

³ὅτε δὲ ὠσφράνθη τὸ δαιμόνιον τῆς ὀσμῆς, ἔφυγεν εἰς τὰ ἀνώτατα Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἔδησεν αὐτὸ ὁ ἄγγελος.

⁴ὡς δὲ συνεκλείσθησαν ἀμφότεροι, ἀνέστη Τωβίας ἀπὸ τῆς κλίνης καὶ εἶπεν· ἀνάστηθι, ἀδελφή, καὶ προσευξώμεθα, ἵνα ἐλεήσῃ ἡμᾶς ὁ Κύριος.

⁵καὶ ἤρξατο Τωβίας λέγειν· εὐλογητὸς εἶ, ὁ Θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, καὶ εὐλογητὸν τὸ ὄνομά σου τὸ ἅγιον καὶ ἔνδοξον εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· εὐλογησάτωσάν σε οἱ οὐρανοὶ καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ κτίσεις σου.

⁶σὺ ἐποίησας ᾿Αδὰμ καὶ ἔδωκας αὐτῷ βοηθὸν Εὔαν στήριγμα τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ· ἐκ τούτων ἐγεννήθη τὸ ἀνθρώπων σπέρμα. σὺ εἶπας· οὐ καλὸν εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον μόνον, ποιήσωμεν αὐτῷ βοηθὸν ὅμοιον αὐτῷ.

⁷καὶ νῦν, Κύριε, οὐ διά πορνείαν ἐγὼ λαμβάνω τὴν ἀδελφήν μου ταύτην, ἀλλὰ ἐπ᾿ ἀληθείας ἐπίταξον ἐλεῆσαί με καὶ αὐτῇ συγκαταγηρᾶσαι.

⁸καὶ εἶπε μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ· ἀμήν.

⁹καὶ ἐκοιμήθησαν ἀμφότεροι τὴν νύκτα.

¹⁰καὶ ἀναστὰς Ῥαγουὴλ ἐπορεύθη καὶ ὤρυξε τάφον λέγων· μὴ καὶ οὗτος ἀποθάνῃ;

¹¹καὶ ἦλθε Ῥαγουὴλ εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν ἑαυτοῦ

¹²καὶ εἶπεν ῎Εδνᾳ τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ· ἀπόστειλον μίαν τῶν παιδισκῶν, καὶ ἰδέτωσαν εἰ ζῇ· εἰ δὲ μή, ἵνα θάψωμεν αὐτόν, καὶ μηδεὶς γνῷ.

¹³καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ἡ παιδίσκη ἀνοίξασα τὴν θύραν καὶ εὗρε τοὺς δύο καθεύδοντας.

¹⁴καὶ ἐξελθοῦσα ἀπήγγειλεν αὐτοῖς, ὅτι ζῇ.

¹⁵καὶ εὐλόγησε Ῥαγουὴλ τὸν Θεὸν λέγων· εὐλογητὸς εἶ σύ, ὁ Θεός, ἐν πάσῃ εὐλογίᾳ καθαρᾷ καὶ ἁγίᾳ, καὶ εὐλογείτωσάν σε οἱ ἅγιοί σου καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ κτίσεις σου, καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄγγελοί σου καὶ οἱ ἐκλεκτοί σου εὐλογείτωσάν σε εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας.

¹⁶εὐλογητὸς εἶ ὅτι ηὔφρανάς με, καὶ οὐκ ἐγένετό μοι καθὼς ὑπενόουν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ πολὺ ἔλεός σου ἐποίησας μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν.

¹⁷εὐλογητὸς εἶ ὅτι ἠλέησας δύο μονογενεῖς· ποίησον αὐτοῖς, δέσποτα, ἔλεος, συντέλεσον τὴν ζωὴν αὐτῶν ἐν ὑγιείᾳ μετ᾿ εὐφροσύνης καὶ ἐλέους.

¹⁸ἐκέλευσε δὲ τοῖς οἰκέταις χῶσαι τὸν τάφον.

¹⁹καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτοῖς γάμον ἡμερῶν δεκατεσσάρων.

²⁰καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ῥαγουὴλ πρὶν ἢ συντελεσθῆναι τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ γάμου ἐνόρκως μὴ ἐξελθεῖν αὐτὸν ἐὰν μὴ πληρωθῶσιν αἱ δεκατέσσαρες ἡμέραι τοῦ γάμου.

²¹καὶ τότε λαβόντα τὸ ἥμισυ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτοῦ πορεύεσθαι μεθ᾿ ὑγιείας πρὸς τὸν πατέρα· καὶ τὰ λοιπά, ὅταν ἀποθάνω καὶ ἡ γυνή μου.

¹And when they had supped, they brought Tobias in unto her.

²And as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the perfumes, and put the heart and the liver of the fish thereupon, and made a smoke therewith.

³The which smell when the evil spirit had smelled, he fled into the utmost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.

⁴And after that they were both shut in together, Tobias rose out of the bed, and said, Sister, arise, and let us pray that God would have pity on us.

⁵Then began Tobias to say, Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed is thy holy and glorious name for ever; let the heavens bless thee, and all thy creatures.

⁶Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said, It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.

⁷And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lush but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

⁸And she said with him, Amen.

⁹So they slept both that night. And Raguel arose, and went and made a grave,

¹⁰Saying, I fear lest he also be dead.

¹¹But when Raguel was come into his house,

¹²He said unto his wife Edna. Send one of the maids, and let her see whether he be alive: if he be not, that we may bury him, and no man know it.

¹³So the maid opened the door, and went in, and found them both asleep,

¹⁴And came forth, and told them that he was alive.

¹⁵Then Raguel praised God, and said, O God, thou art worthy to be praised with all pure and holy praise; therefore let thy saints praise thee with all thy creatures; and let all thine angels and thine elect praise thee for ever.

¹⁶Thou art to be praised, for thou hast made me joyful; and that is not come to me which I suspected; but thou hast dealt with us according to thy great mercy.

¹⁷Thou art to be praised because thou hast had mercy of two that were the only begotten children of their fathers: grant them mercy, O Lord, and finish their life in health with joy and mercy.

¹⁸Then Raguel bade his servants to fill the grave.

¹⁹And he kept the wedding feast fourteen days.

²⁰For before the days of the marriage were finished, Raguel had said unto him by an oath, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the marriage were expired;

²¹And then he should take the half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and should have the rest when I and my wife be dead.